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The Local and the Global: Neighborhoods, Workers and Associations in São Paulo (1945-1964)
2017This article aims to analyze residents' associations organized around specific working-class neighborhoods in São Paulo between the end of World War II and the Brazilian Military coup in 1964. It examines, in particular, ... -
Electronic government implementation projects with multiple agencies: Analysis of the electronic invoice project under PMBOK framework
2009Contemporary public administrations have been suffering several ways of pressure to promote modernization in their structures and services. One of governments' options to meet that demand lies in the potential use of ... -
The role of gender in paradoxes associated with smartphone use by Brazilian executives
2014Studies have claimed that smartphone has generated both positive and negative consequences associated with its use by executives, who are most of the time unaware of them. Moreover, the influence of gender on the emergence ... -
Detecting and sorting the paradoxes associated with smartphone use by Brazilian professionals
2015The use of mobile wireless technologies brings associated paradoxes already identified in the literature. Thus, this research uses quantitative analysis to determine the perception of presence and intensity level of fourteen ... -
Development of financial education in open and distance learning: The approach of federal fluminense university
2017Distance education spreads knowledge and provides information to millions of people worldwide. Such kind of teaching became popular and expands education in remote locations, besides reaching people who cannot afford tuition ... -
The information privacy concerns at the organizational level: An exploratory study in the bank sector
2015The leakage of private information in corporations continues to occur on a large scale, with loss of thousands of records. The information privacy concerns are one dimension that can help to define organizations' attitudes ... -
CIO competencies: A social representation analysis
2014The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has become increasingly important for companies. However, one can perceive that this professional realizes that his/her competencies are not always enough to tackle a daily professional ... -
UN targeted sanctions datasets (1991–2013)
2018Targeted sanctions are increasingly used by the United Nations (UN) Security Council to address major challenges to international peace and security. Unlike other sanctions, those imposed by the UN are universally binding ... -
Unveiling barriers to sustainable public procurement in emerging economies: Evidence from a leading sustainable supply chain initiative in Latin America
2018In light of the Theory of Ecological Modernisation, this is the first work to explore the organisational barriers affecting one of the most significant sustainable public procurement initiatives in Latin America: the ... -
Information, market incentives, and student performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Brazil
2018We use a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rule for the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance in public and private schools. We find ... -
Extracting inflation risk premium from nominal and real bonds using survey information
2018Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to forecast future inflation using a joint model of the nominal and real yield curves estimated with survey data. The model is arbitrage free and embodies incompleteness between the ... -
Dynamic sets of potentially interchangeable connotations: A theory of mental objects
2008Analogy-making is an ability with which we can abstract from surface similarities and perceive deep, meaningful similarities between different mental objects and situations. I propose that mental objects are dynamically ... -
Brazil: The costs of multiparty presidentialism
2018Political scientists have long debated the merits of multiparty presidentialism. The dominant view that has emerged over the past decade is that presidents can effectively build coalitions by sharing control over the ... -
Brazilian oil sector reforms: The role of technical know-how and corporate ethos in Petrobras's dominance
2018The literature shows that Petrobras's specialized knowledge in deep-water exploration helped it maintain its dominance of the oil sector in Brazil. This article contributes to the literature by throwing light on how this ... -
Wages, informality, and net fiscal benefit in a federation: evaluating intergovernmental grants in Brazilian municipalities
2018We estimate the net fiscal benefit (NFB) and the fiscal effect of unconditional grants on wages for twenty-six Brazilian states in the period 2005 to 2009. In particular, we explore the analytical framework proposed in ... -
Information design and capital formation
2018Could a firm benefit from not disclosing all of its private information before its stock is traded in public financial markets? So long as the investors' marginal utility function is convex and the investors differ only ... -
Price and in-store promotions in an emerging market
2018Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the influence of price and products on the promotion (through in-store temporary displays) on consumer sales in an emerging market context (i.e. Brazil) in different regions ... -
Strategy and practices: A qualitative study of a Brazilian public healthcare system of telemedicine
2018Purpose: In analyzing the field of strategic management in public organizations, scholars have noted a lack of studies that investigate how public organizations actually apply strategic management tools (Hansen, 2011) as ...
